When New Jersey Republicans were surveyed last week by the Monmouth University Poll, 41 percent said Christie on the ticket would hurt Trump and only 15 percent said it would help, while 37 percent said it would have no impact.

“It’s hard to imagine any running mate who could kill the Trump buzz, but the voters who know Chris Christie best think he might be that guy, ” poll director Patrick Murray said in the release of the survey.

Christie’s favorability among Jersey voters overall, when last measured by the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, was 31 percent — less than half the rating he enjoyed when re-elected in 2013.

But Christie’s unpopularity “basically stops at New Jersey’s borders,” Murray told Newsday, and Christie could be seen as “a solid choice” by voters elsewhere.

“Christie certainly has the executive experience — and the official political experience, in general — that could make up for Trump’s lack of it,” Ashley Koning, assistant director of the Eagleton Center, said via email.